If Cong thinks it can defeat BJP by soft Hindutva tactics, it is mistaken: CPI(M)

The CPI (M) has warned the Congress that it will fail to defeat the BJP in the upcoming general elections if it continues to peddle soft Hindutva .
In an editorial in the latest edition of its mouthpiece, People s Democracy, the CPI (M) has referred to Congress president Rahul Gandhi s flurry of temple visits in the poll-bound states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and said that it was a pale echo of the Hindutva platforms.
The attempt to prove that the Congress was genuinely more Hindu than the BJP witnessed a flurry of temple visits by Rahul Gandhi in the three states... If the Congress thinks it can defeat the BJP by such soft Hindutva tactics, it is mistaken, the editorial said.
Highlighting what the CPI (M) considered as Congress soft Hindutva , the editorial picked on the party s manifestos in the three states.
It said while in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress talked of gaushalas (cow shelters) in every panchayat, commercial sale of gaumutra (cow urine) ...